> I don't think you are missing anything, seems it would be nice to have a > way to connect to a file server and say "tell me about metadata changes".
Windows does this. I wanted to do this too, I considered making read(2)s beyond the end of a directory block the calling process until any file in that directory is modified. I decided this is too nasty and added a synthetic event file instead. This was fine as I had only a small heirarchy to serve not the general one of a "real" file server. -Steve
